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How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry
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How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry

How torture, inaction underpin UAE’s thriving sex trafficking industry African women trafficked into the UAE are forced into debt and subjected to threats and violence, as they are kept in sexual slavery. The case of Christy Gold, who has been charged with sex trafficking in Nigeria, highlights the torment endured by these women in the…

Libya Is Deadliest Launching Pad for Illegal Immigration to Europe – The Media Line
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Libya Is Deadliest Launching Pad for Illegal Immigration to Europe – The Media Line

International Organization for Migration reports over 20,000 migrants rescued from Mediterranean Sea in 2022 and returned to Libya Over 20,000 migrants have been rescued from migration attempts via the Mediterranean Sea and returned to Libya so far in 2022, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) reported. According to figures presented in the report released on…

Collaborating against Human Trafficking
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Collaborating against Human Trafficking

 Ugo Aliogo examines the activities of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons According to a report, Nigeria remains a source, transit and destination country in the illicit trade of human trafficking. The Global Slavery Index (2018) report, Nigeria ranks 32 out of167 of the countries with the highest number of slaves –…

Edo, Italian Govt Partner To Tackle Illegal Migration launches Managing Migration Through Development
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Edo, Italian Govt Partner To Tackle Illegal Migration launches Managing Migration Through Development

Edo State Government, in active collaboration with the Italian Government and lnternational Organization for Migration, IOM, has formally launched the Managing Migration Through Development (MMDP 2.0) project. The project was launched by Governor Godwin Nogheghase Obaseki at the Protea Hotel, Benin City, the Edo State capital. The Governor who was represented by his Deputy, Rt….

Alphabetical Man Fights against Human Trafficking – EIN Presswire
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Alphabetical Man Fights against Human Trafficking – EIN Presswire

Metal Roz Records Launches a Superhero Character for Children HOUSTON, TX, UNITED STATES, November 5, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — Houston, TX – (EMAILWIRE) — Metal Roz Records launches Alphabetical Man — a superhero character who fights against human trafficking. Here is the origin of the newest children Superhero: Alphabetical Man The background Hieroglyphics within a secret…

At least 29000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014: UN researchers
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At least 29000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014: UN researchers

More than 29,000 migrants have died trying to reach Europe since 2014, with 5,000 deaths in the last two years, the International Organization for Migration said in a report Tuesday. The United Nations agency’s Missing Migrants Project spoke of “increasing numbers of deaths seen on routes across the Mediterranean, on land borders to Europe and…

The case of ‘El Hiblu 3’: “Resisting illegal deportation to Libya is not a crime”
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The case of ‘El Hiblu 3’: “Resisting illegal deportation to Libya is not a crime”

Pressure is mounting on Attorney General Victoria Buttigieg to dismiss the trial against three young migrants who stand accused of terrorism in Malta.  Charities claim that the charges should be dropped as the youths were merely resisting their forced return to Libya, a country where migrants and refugees face systematic exploitation, including forced labor, torture…

Nearly 270 migrants rescued by the "Ocean Viking" in the Mediterranean – Globe Echo
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Nearly 270 migrants rescued by the "Ocean Viking" in the Mediterranean – Globe Echo

A group of migrants rescued by volunteers from the rescue ship Ocean Viking, during a rescue operation in the Mediterranean Sea, August 25, 2022. JEREMIAS GONZALEZ / AP L’Ocean-Vikinga humanitarian ship of SOS Méditerranée, has rescued 268 people since Thursday August 25 during five rescues of migrants mostly found in overcrowded wooden boats between Libya…

“Deterrence by drowning”: why the E.U. must create safe migration channels
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“Deterrence by drowning”: why the E.U. must create safe migration channels

Last week, Loujin, a four-year-old girl from Syria, spent days stranded on a boat before eventually dying at sea, according to Human Rights Watch. Alarmingly, Loujin is just one of over 1,200 people who have died in the Mediterranean Sea so far this year, attempting to make it to Europe.   These deaths are the outcome…

The most dangerous immigrant routes in the world: where (undocumented) immigrants most often die
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The most dangerous immigrant routes in the world: where (undocumented) immigrants most often die

The world’s most dangerous immigrant routes: where illegal immigrants most often die. Photo: Shutterstock Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, many countries have tightened border controls, which prompted illegal immigrants (editor’s note: people are not illegal – they may be undocumented, which is illegal, but a human is not an “illegal.” – bjc) to go en masse…